High School of Commerce - Caduceus Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Miss Dobbs with Foods Group DRESSMAKING ROOM Mildred Dobbs, Janet E. Scott, Rebecca S. Flagg, Martha B. Judd, Bernice White, O. Jean Bell, L. Frances Tourtellotte, Grace L. Bulkeley. What to eat; what to wear; how to make a good appearance and be socially acceptable; how to get along with one’s family, friends, and other associates; how to stretch the family dollar: these and kindred subjects are studied in the required Home Economics courses. Girls who have a special interest may elect advanced work in foods and in dressmaking. During the past year, many girls in the clothing classes have joined the Junior Red Cross and completed the:r quota of 488 garments: 341 skirts, 12 jumpers, 18 baby dresses, and 117 baby bonnets. Timely work has also been done in the planning of low-cost meals, and in the use of war-time rations. ART AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS Se ue Bia eto hill Music Director ART ROOM Howard C. Kelley, Science; Edith F. Marsden, Art; Harold W. Jones, Science; David H. Reid, Science; Helen Norrgard, Art. . . . RIGHT — F. Anthony Viggiano, Music. Arts, dealing with shaded lines and blended harmonies; science, working with truth and cold facts—these subjects are taught by two departments, one encouraging creative ability and developing imagination, the other demanding geometrical precision and clear reasoning. Working together, both departments develop within the students a breadth of appreciation and a clarity of thought that could not be attained without this co-ordinating of efforts. Be: [i]

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STENOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT Mr. Hayes Explains Duplicating TYPEWRITING ROOM STANDING, left to right—Lloyd H. Hayes, Mrs. Catherine H. Hayes, Anna S. Danforth, Madeline C. Hunt, Honora F. Nelligan, D. Edward Fenton. . . . SEATED—wNatalie Clark, Phyllis Savoy, Charles A. Campbell, Eleanor M. Walker, Catherine M. Casey, Mrs. Marion H. Davis. The Secretarial Department places its emphasis on developing usable skill in writing shorthand and in typewriting, so that it may send its grad- uates well prepared into Springfield offices, but it also finds time to help organizations in the community—such work as addressing envelopes for the Tuberculosis Campaign each year. The duplicating room (left) is one of the busiest and most useful corners of the building. Here the pupils who operate the mimeograph, the direct process duplicators, and the multigraph, turn out thousands of copies of bulletins, outlines, and programs for the use of the school. This work affords valuable and practical experience to students in their senior semester. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Mr. Chatto Directs the Print Shop CLASS ROOM 106 Clarence I. Chatto, Jennie M. Roberts, Theodore M. Pease, Mildred B. Jenks, Genieve M. Allen, Emma G. Nickerson, Margaret O. Palmer, Augusta Colby, Belding F. Jackson, Frances C. Blakeman, Bernice W. Dearborn, Theresa W. Williams, Helen E. Rankin, Elizabeth S. Ullery, Madeline E. Maurer. Besides teaching, the members of this department supervise many major extracurricular activities. Mr. Chatto, Chairman, advises the school paper, Commerce, the Debating Team, and the Golf Club; Mr. Jackson fathers the Boys’ and the Girls’ Patrols; and Miss Rankin advises Caduceus, Director and founder of the Radio Workshop, Miss Allen also coaches the National Forensic League speakers; and Mrs. Williams advises the Nisimaha. Prac- tically all of the members serve on important committees. [10]

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION Coach Relyea Gives Final Instructions GYMNASIUM OFFICE SEATED, left to right—Jeanne V. Jandreau, Alleen E. Hills. . . . STAND- ING—Raymond Shea, E. H. B. Myers, Bessie L. Fisher, Oren B. Relyea. A mathematician proves the worth of his work by figures; the scientist is satisfied with his labor only after long experimentation; but when one tries to determine the value of physical education, there are no figures to add nor experiments to perform. This department deals with health and character development; it is impossible to evaluate its worth. A well- balanced program of sports, co-educational recreation, and group participation enables the combined staffs to reach their objectives: the formation of correct health habits and the development of healthy minds and bodies. Be: HEALTH COUNSELOR MRS. MARIAN C. CHESSON IN EMERGENCY ROOM Many of us, especially the girls, really appreciate our school nurse, Mrs. Marian Chesson, in Room 111. We know how friendly, helpful, and kind she is, not only in regard to all sorts of illnesses, but with personal problems as well. In the twenty-one years, she has smilingly greeted all who enter the emergency room, hundreds of us Com- merce girls have gone to her when we needed advice from some one outside our own home. It is said that “a friend in need is a friend indeed”; in Commerce, that person is Mrs. Marian Chesson! D Ei [12]